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Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Chris Pyne, Senior Manager Partner Development at SAP. At the core of the conversation lies this question: ''What is the single biggest lesson that you have learnt about the translation industry?''

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Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Chris Wendt, Group Program Manager of the Microsoft Translator Team. At the core of the conversation lies this question: ''What is the single biggest lesson that you have leant about the translation industry?''

Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Eric Liu, General Manager of Alibaba Language.

At the core of the conversation lies this question: ‘What is the single biggest lesson that you have learnt about the translation industry?’’

Eric Liu:I come from a cosmopolitan background, being born in China and studying in the US, and gained experience of cross-border business when I was young. I then started my own crowdsourcing company in China in 2011 to improve localization in the country. Due to this, the biggest thing I learnt about the industry was that people who do not work in translation have a very hard time grasping facts about languages apart from their own. They simply don’t realize what it means for other people to need versions of content in their own language.

Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Christophe Djaouani, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Donnelley Language Solutions. At the core of the conversation lies this question: “What is the single biggest lesson that you have learnt about the translation industry?”

Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Smith Yewell, founder and CEO of Welocalize, the US localization company based in Maryland, about what his key takeaway is from his extensive experience in localization. The theme of the conversation was:

Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Aiman Copty, Vice President of International Product Solutions for Oracle Corporation about what his key takeaway is from his extensive experience in localization. The theme of the conversation was:

Captains of the Translation Industry Talk About the Single Biggest Thing They've Learnt

TAUS spoke with Adolfo Hernandez, the CEO of SDL, about what he had learnt from his first 18 months in his position. Adolfo is probably the captain of the translation industry with one of the shortest C-suite tenures. The theme of the conversation was:

"What is the single biggest lesson that you have learnt about the translation industry?"